{"id":40384,"date":"2024-07-06T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-football-is-cruel-portugal-coach-martinez-laments\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T11:04:21","slug":"euro-2024-football-is-cruel-portugal-coach-martinez-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-football-is-cruel-portugal-coach-martinez-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: Football is cruel \u2013 Portugal coach, Martinez laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Portugal coach, Roberto Martinez, has lamented that football is cruel amid the ongoing Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Matinez said this while giving his verdict on his side\u2019s elimination from Euro 2024 after Joao Felix missed his penalty in the shootout against France in the quarter-finals on Friday to end Portugal\u2019s quest to claim the title for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Martinez said at his post-match interview (via Ojogo):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be proud of the players, who fought and performed very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is cruel. It was incredible, very difficult, we wanted to give joy to the Portuguese people, this team showed the values of Portugal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dressing room is strong and helps players who are going through a difficult time. Only those who take penalties can miss. It is part of football. We did a good job, the dressing room values were very good. We have to look beyond the Euros, there is life after the Euros,\u201d the Spanaird added.<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: Football is cruel \u2013 Portugal coach, Martinez laments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal coach, Roberto Martinez, has lamented that football is cruel amid the ongoing Euro 2024. Matinez said this while giving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2713,8526,15,3403,160],"tags":[1279,8,613,19094,2716,410,2351,8527,180,3406,201],"class_list":["post-40384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euro-2024","category-martinez","category-news","category-portugal","category-sport","tag-1279","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-coach","tag-cruel","tag-euro","tag-football","tag-laments","tag-martinez","tag-news","tag-portugal","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}